Foreword
I write to welcome members of the Class of 1985 to our fortieth reunion. When we were here as students, most of us thought that simply turning 40 years of age was a long way off. Here we are at another kind of forty.
Inevitably, our class became leaders in ways public and private, in academia, in creative and athletic pursuits, in giving back, and in family and community life. Our knowledge of law informed most if not all of our major endeavors.
We were educated in America’s oldest and largest law school. Whatever else we became, we have personified the founders’ hopes for citizens who understood what democracy requires. And so, we give back to our world, including HLS, in all sorts of ways, with capital resources and personal skills and ideas.
This weekend I hope we will discuss and celebrate the legacies we inherited, the new and sometimes surprising challenges of this time, and how we now hopefully use our wisdom to improve life for our communities, our country, and our world. That’s a robust goal for a weekend, and one I am sure will occur, as great things typically do at HLS.
Welcome to forty.
Marshall Sonenshine
Chair of the fortieth reunion
Former Chair of the Annual Fund
Lecturer on Law
In Memoriam
We pay tribute and hold dear the memories of our classmates who have passed away. Although they are no longer with us, their enduring presence will forever hold a cherished place in our hearts and within the Harvard Law School community.
Records of the Class
Click the button below to view your password-protected class records – a collection of your classmates’ contact information and their stories – about life, career, family, hobbies, and more
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Class Remembrances
Basha V. Hicks
Timothy Robert McTaggart remembers:
I am sorry that Basha is no longer with us. I always thought that she had a great personal presence in the classroom and on the HLS campus.
She had a very quick and nimble mind. I know that she liked living in south Florida.
My condolences to her family who grieve her loss.
Adam Jerome Myers III
Timothy Robert McTaggart remembers:
Adam was a great friend and classmate. He had a remarkable track record of success at Penn State, as a CPA in industry and then after a mid-career pivot, as a Harvard Law school graduate. He broke through racial barriers in Pennsylvania as an “African American” first to hold certain roles at Penn State and in his professional endeavors. Adam was a risk-taker; they were measured risks but they were risks, nonetheless.
Adam was generous with his time, and his possessions, whether that involved, in my case, borrowing his car or his tux. He was a Renaissance man with his love of music, his deep family history in Gettysburg, his professional/business interests and career success in Philadelphia, and his love of travel.
Adam taught law, business, and accounting/finance in law school and universities for many years, after practicing in law firms. He must have been a great teacher combining the academic theory with his practical experience and pragmatism.
Adam was a fun-loving guy, with a very quick wit. I miss not seeing him as part of the class.
My condolences to his family.
Andrew M. Taniguchi
Stanley Young remembers:
Andy was a very good sport about our joint bar exam study in the summer of 1985. He stayed at my house in San Francisco in the period before the bar exam. Being from Hawaii, he brought only t-shirts and shorts to wear. But summers in San Francisco can be cold, and the heating in my house happened to be broken then. So he shivered. Then, on the morning of the first day of the bar exam, in the middle of the Bay Bridge, I realized that I had forgotten to bring my pass to get into the exam. Andy and I maintained an icy silence while we turned around and drove back through the morning commute traffic to my house to get my pass and then made our way back through that same traffic again to get to the exam site. Luckily, we had given ourselves a lot of time to make the drive, and we got there ten minutes before the exam began. Even more luckily, we both passed. So (I think) he forgave me. I was very much saddened by his premature passing and miss him very much.